This volume brings together a selection of the most philosophically significant papers of Arthur Pap. As Sanford Shieh explains in the Introduction to this volume, Pap’s work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This role goes beyond the merely historical fact that Pap’s views of dispositional and modal concepts were influential. As a sympathetic critic of logical empiricism, Pap, like Quine, saw a deep tension in logical empiricism at its very best, in the work of Carnap. But Pap’s critique of Carnap is quite different from Quine’s, and represents the discovery of limits beyond which empiricism cannot go, where there lies nothing other than intuitive knowledge of logic itself. Pap’s arguments for this intuitive knowledge anticipate Etchemendy’s recent critique of the model-theoretic account of logical consequence. Pap’s work also anticipates prominent developments in the contemporary neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics championed by Wright and Hale. Finally, Pap’s major philosophical preoccupation, the concepts of necessity and possibility, provides distinctive solutions and perspectives on issues of contemporary concern in the metaphysics of modality. In particular, Pap’s account of modality allows us to see the significance of Kripke’s well-known arguments on necessity and apriority in a new light.
This volume will be of interest to all researchers in the philosophical history of the analytic tradition, in philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and contemporary analytic metaphysics.
Author(s): Alfons Keupink, Sanford Shieh (eds.)
Series: Synthese Library 343
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 404
Tags: Philosophy; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Science; Logic; Ontology; Philosophy of Language
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
ON THE MEANING OF NECESSITY (1943)....Pages 47-55
THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF A PRIORI (1944)....Pages 57-75
LOGIC AND THE SYNTHETIC A PRIORI (1949)....Pages 77-90
ARE ALL NECESSARY PROPOSITIONS ANALYTIC? (1949)....Pages 91-108
NECESSARY PROPOSITIONS AND LINGUISTIC RULES (1955)....Pages 109-143
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NOTE ON THE “SEMANTIC” AND THE “ABSOLUTE” CONCEPTS OF TRUTH (1952)....Pages 147-154
PROPOSITIONS, SENTENCES, AND THE SEMANTIC DEFINITION OF TRUTH (1954)....Pages 155-164
BELIEF AND PROPOSITIONS (1957)....Pages 165-179
SEMANTIC EXAMINATION OF REALISM (1947)....Pages 181-193
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LOGIC AND THE CONCEPT OF ENTAILMENT(1950)....Pages 197-204
STRICT IMPLICATION, ENTAILMENT, AND MODAL ITERATION (1955)....Pages 205-212
MATHEMATICS, ABSTRACT ENTITIES, AND MODERN SEMANTICS (1957)....Pages 213-232
EXTENSIONALITY, ATTRIBUTES, AND CLASSES (1958)....Pages 233-236
A NOTE ON LOGIC AND EXISTENCE (1947)....Pages 237-241
THE LINGUISTIC HIERARCHY AND THE VICIOUS-CIRCLE PRINCIPLE (1954)....Pages 243-246
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OTHER MINDS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF VERIFIABILITY (1951)....Pages 249-268
SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND PSYCHOPHYSICAL DUALISM (1952)....Pages 269-279
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THE CONCEPT OF ABSOLUTE EMERGENCE (1951)....Pages 285-293
REDUCTION SENTENCES AND OPEN CONCEPTS (1953)....Pages 295-316
EXTENSIONAL LOGIC AND LAWS OF NATURE (1955)....Pages 317-326
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Introduction....Pages 3-43
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DISPOSITION CONCEPTS AND EXTENSIONAL LOGIC (1958)....Pages 327-350
ARE PHYSICAL MAGNITUDES OPERATIONALLY DEFINABLE? (1959)....Pages 351-362
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ARTHUR PAP (1921-1959): A BRIEF INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY....Pages 365-368
ARTHUR PAP: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES....Pages 369-374
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR PAP....Pages 375-379
